{"id":18449,"date":"2024-08-15T20:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T00:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=18449"},"modified":"2024-08-15T20:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T00:24:44","slug":"pd-open-house-touch-truck-successes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/15\/pd-open-house-touch-truck-successes\/","title":{"rendered":"PD Open House, Touch Truck successes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of events held in Decatur on August 3 proved to be quite popular, according to reports given at city council&#8217;s recent meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police Chief Kevin Gerber said the open house at the Seventh St. police station \u201cwas successful. We had around 84 individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, he said, \u201cWe gave away a bunch of school supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"221\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/46C307150EFF4F1F9B55227D71FAC958.jpg?resize=640%2C221&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/46C307150EFF4F1F9B55227D71FAC958.jpg?resize=1024%2C354&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/46C307150EFF4F1F9B55227D71FAC958.jpg?resize=300%2C104&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/46C307150EFF4F1F9B55227D71FAC958.jpg?resize=768%2C265&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/46C307150EFF4F1F9B55227D71FAC958.jpg?w=1108&amp;ssl=1 1108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Facebook post, the department said: \u201cWe enjoy serving our community, and we hope everyone learned at least one new thing about your police department today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo everyone who donated school supplies, thank you so very much. You made a difference and helped several local young students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the same Saturday, at Riverside Center, its parking lot was filled with all manner of vehicles, large and small, for this year&#8217;s Touch-a-Truck program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI understand it was very successful; they had a ton of kids out there,\u201d Mayor Dan Rickord said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free donuts, juice and coffee were made available by the Sons of the American Legion Adams Post 43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com A couple of events held in Decatur on August 3 proved to be quite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,14],"class_list":["post-18449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-community","tag-decatur"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}